The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . design for a tower showing his idea for its general proportions. It consists of six stories, in a sequence of orders. The lowest story is a perfect cube and each of the other stories is 11-12 of the story below, or diminishing practically in the proportion of 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, allowing in each case for the amount hidden by the projection of the cornice below; each order being accurate as regards column, entablature, etc. It is of interest to compare this with Ruskins idea in his Seven Lamps, where he takes the case of a plan
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . design for a tower showing his idea for its general proportions. It consists of six stories, in a sequence of orders. The lowest story is a perfect cube and each of the other stories is 11-12 of the story below, or diminishing practically in the proportion of 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, allowing in each case for the amount hidden by the projection of the cornice below; each order being accurate as regards column, entablature, etc. It is of interest to compare this with Ruskins idea in his Seven Lamps, where he takes the case of a plant called Alisma Plantago, in which the various branches diminish in the proportion of 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, respec-tively, and so carry out the same idea; on which Ruskin observes that diminution in a building should be after the manner of Nature. It would be a profitlesstask to formulate exact rulesof architectural proportionbased upon the laws ofmusical harmony. The twoarts are too different fromeach other for that, andmoreover the last appealmust always be to the eye,. j:e= MINOR, THJUc] ?»ir= MAJOR-3H>- a:4-= rOUKIJi 1:2. CK :rt6 .a7; 12 5: 104:3a:82,:71 :s 1. GRAPHICAL BXPaKStONOFMUilCAL INTERVALS. SCKLh SHOWING PI6INCIPAL PilO-POUrriONi Of THE. PARTHENON— 90 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY VII THE. PALAZZO VERSI AT VLRONA (L0WLR» PORTIONONLY). A CXDMPO^ITION FOUNDE-D ON THE- EQUAL ANDREGULAR. DIVISION OF SPACL. AS IS FOUNDE-DON THE EQUAL AND ;GULAR> DIVISION OF TIMEJ--—
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